Lesson learned

I had no idea it took so much thread to do fmq. For practice, I bought a John Deere child's panel and matching flannel backing. I straight stitched around each picture and did a meander to fill in each panel, then did a free flowing design in the borders. I just had to go buy my THIRD spool of thread. I'm using the Gutterman polyester 100m-110 yds. That's almost $6 just for thread. I didn't buy a large spool to begin with because it's lime green and I didn't think I would use it for anything else.
Well, I learned my lesson and am getting pretty good at fmq so it's worth it. I was just surprised.

I don't want to brag but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school.

i always figure i need at least 1000 yards of thread to quilt a quilt- i try to purchase cones with 2500 yards (or somewhere around there) i could probably use up a 100 yard spool of thread on a pot holder.
it is amazing how much thread it takes sometimes. connecting threads has good sales and their 500 yard spools are in a huge selection of colors- for $2. something a spool.

I'm making a purple quilt for my daughter (her color definitely not mine). I bought a 1000 yard spool of variegated purple thread and started quilting the border--I know, I know you should really start in the middle but it was spray basted really well, anyway I got most of the way around the border and ran out of thread. Had to remember where I got the thread, ordered 2 more spools to make sure I had enough and guess what? The middle of the quilt had a lot of white in it and this particular variegated thread looked awful! So now I'm going to use invisible thread for the middle but I'm stuck with 2 spools of purple variegated thread that I'll probably never use

ThreadArt.com is a great place to buy varigated thread. I just received 26 spools of asst color varigated (1000 m) for $30. I also bought glue back stones for $5 for 144. The same thing at Hobby Lobby was $5 for 36. I am not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.

One year I got to go to Houston and Sharon Shomburg, (I'm sure I just misspelled that) had a quilt that she had free motioned and if I remember correctly it had 30,000 yard of thread. Can you imagine??